Mary‐jane Rubenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4877490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary‐jane Rubenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary‐jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubenstein |
| SIGNATURE | RUBENSTEIN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno
The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno
Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking
Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and…
Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America
Veridical Claims and the Question (once more) of Philosophy of Religion
Bradley Onishi’s Sacrality of the Secular offers a helpful mapping of the recent history and contemporary terrain of the subfield awkwardly called “the continental philosophy of religion.” Onishi anchors his work in careful readings of two of the discipline’s forefathers: the over-appreciated Heidegger and the under-appreciated Bataille. In delineating the territory that these thinkers have opened, Onishi makes an operative distinction between “c…
Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse
Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse
Introducing Polydoxy
Introduction to Polydox Reflections, co-edited with Kathryn Tanner
The Twilight of the Doxai: Or, How to Philosophize with a Whac-A-MoleTM Mallet
This article evaluates the hermeneutic value of the category of belief from the perspective of a broadly “continental” philosophy of religion. From Socrates’s dismantling of his interlocutors’ doxai to Pseudo-Dionysius’s un-saying of the divine names to Kierkegaard’s noetic divestment to Derrida’s aporetic genealogies, it argues that “belief” is the target, rather than the telos , of philosophic scrutiny. For the authors engaged here, beliefs are…
Cosmic Singularities: On the Nothing and the Sovereign
Until very recently, the creation myth of secular modernity has been the hot big bang hypothesis: the explosion of our single universe out of a single point. Physicists concede that in its traditional form, this story performs an uncanny recapitulation of Christian creation theology: the universe bursts forth suddenly, in a flood of light, out of nothing. As many contemporary thinkers have argued, however, the “nothing” of Christian orthodoxy is …
This Incredible Need to Believe – By Julia Kristeva
Capital Shares: The Way Back into the With of Christianity
In the ten years since the publication of Michael Hardt's and Antonio Negri's Empire, the relationship between Christianity and global capital has received increasing theological attention among the adherents, critics, sympathizersssa, and apostates of Radical Orthodoxy. At stake in this conversation is the possibility that Christianity might provide a universal ontology sufficient to ground a counter-hegemonic, specifically socialist, praxis. On…
Onward, Ridiculous Debaters
This article responds to Adam Kotsko's counter-positioning of Thomist-Milbankian hierarchy on the one hand and Deleuzian-Surinian univocity on the other as competing visions for an ontologically grounded universal socialism. Pointing to Milbank's declaration that it would be "ridiculous" to debate Christianity's universality, Rubenstein raises suspicion about the ethical and political value of universality as such. Ultimately, she points to Jean-…
Dionysius, Derrida, and the Critique of “Ontotheology”
This essay explores Dionysius' work in light of the critique of ontotheology, focusing on Jacques Derrida's work on justice and the messianic. Ultimately, it suggests that the extent to which Dionysius troubles the ontotheological waters depends on the status of hierarchical and teleological relationships in Dionysius. Does hierarchy for Dionysius function strictly “vertically,” bringing a few chosen souls into union with God, or does it also est…
Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine‐Human Communion – By Aristotle Papanikolaou
Unknow Thyself: Apophaticism, Deconstruction, and Theology after Ontotheology
This essay investigates the relationship between post‐structuralist thought and apophaticism, arguing via Pseudo‐Dionysius and Meister Eckhart that theology at its most negative eludes logocentric determinations by disabling the two lynchpins of ontotheology. These are the self‐determined "self" and the conceptually domesticated "God"; by unhinging the self as epistemologically constituted, the apophatic voyage destroys the mutually‐reinforcing c…
Kierkegaard’s Socrates: A Venture in Evolutionary Theory
This essay explores the shifts in Kierkegaard’s conceptions of Socrates, looking to produce a more nuanced reading of Kierkegaardian indirect communication, faith, and subjectivity. Entirely bound up with his increasingly troubled view of Hegel and Hegelianism, Kierkegaard’s relationship to Socrates can be traced through three of his major texts: The Concept of Irony, Philosophical Fragments , and The Concluding Unscientific Postscript . By exami…
The Twilight of the Doxai: Or, How to Philosophize with a Whac-A-MoleTM Mallet
This article evaluates the hermeneutic value of the category of belief from the perspective of a broadly “continental” philosophy of religion. From Socrates’s dismantling of his interlocutors’ doxai to Pseudo-Dionysius’s un-saying of the divine names to Kierkegaard’s noetic divestment to Derrida’s aporetic genealogies, it argues that “belief” is the target, rather than the telos , of philosophic scrutiny. For the authors engaged here, beliefs are…
Cosmic Singularities: On the Nothing and the Sovereign
Until very recently, the creation myth of secular modernity has been the hot big bang hypothesis: the explosion of our single universe out of a single point. Physicists concede that in its traditional form, this story performs an uncanny recapitulation of Christian creation theology: the universe bursts forth suddenly, in a flood of light, out of nothing. As many contemporary thinkers have argued, however, the “nothing” of Christian orthodoxy is …
Onward, Ridiculous Debaters
This article responds to Adam Kotsko's counter-positioning of Thomist-Milbankian hierarchy on the one hand and Deleuzian-Surinian univocity on the other as competing visions for an ontologically grounded universal socialism. Pointing to Milbank's declaration that it would be "ridiculous" to debate Christianity's universality, Rubenstein raises suspicion about the ethical and political value of universality as such. Ultimately, she points to Jean-…
Kierkegaard’s Socrates: A Venture in Evolutionary Theory
This essay explores the shifts in Kierkegaard’s conceptions of Socrates, looking to produce a more nuanced reading of Kierkegaardian indirect communication, faith, and subjectivity. Entirely bound up with his increasingly troubled view of Hegel and Hegelianism, Kierkegaard’s relationship to Socrates can be traced through three of his major texts: The Concept of Irony, Philosophical Fragments , and The Concluding Unscientific Postscript . By exami…
Unknow Thyself: Apophaticism, Deconstruction, and Theology after Ontotheology
This essay investigates the relationship between post‐structuralist thought and apophaticism, arguing via Pseudo‐Dionysius and Meister Eckhart that theology at its most negative eludes logocentric determinations by disabling the two lynchpins of ontotheology. These are the self‐determined "self" and the conceptually domesticated "God"; by unhinging the self as epistemologically constituted, the apophatic voyage destroys the mutually‐reinforcing c…
Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine‐Human Communion – By Aristotle Papanikolaou
Dionysius, Derrida, and the Critique of “Ontotheology”
This essay explores Dionysius' work in light of the critique of ontotheology, focusing on Jacques Derrida's work on justice and the messianic. Ultimately, it suggests that the extent to which Dionysius troubles the ontotheological waters depends on the status of hierarchical and teleological relationships in Dionysius. Does hierarchy for Dionysius function strictly “vertically,” bringing a few chosen souls into union with God, or does it also est…
Onward, Ridiculous Debaters
This article responds to Adam Kotsko's counter-positioning of Thomist-Milbankian hierarchy on the one hand and Deleuzian-Surinian univocity on the other as competing visions for an ontologically grounded universal socialism. Pointing to Milbank's declaration that it would be "ridiculous" to debate Christianity's universality, Rubenstein raises suspicion about the ethical and political value of universality as such. Ultimately, she points to Jean-…
This Incredible Need to Believe – By Julia Kristeva
Capital Shares: The Way Back into the With of Christianity
In the ten years since the publication of Michael Hardt's and Antonio Negri's Empire, the relationship between Christianity and global capital has received increasing theological attention among the adherents, critics, sympathizersssa, and apostates of Radical Orthodoxy. At stake in this conversation is the possibility that Christianity might provide a universal ontology sufficient to ground a counter-hegemonic, specifically socialist, praxis. On…
The Twilight of the Doxai: Or, How to Philosophize with a Whac-A-MoleTM Mallet
This article evaluates the hermeneutic value of the category of belief from the perspective of a broadly “continental” philosophy of religion. From Socrates’s dismantling of his interlocutors’ doxai to Pseudo-Dionysius’s un-saying of the divine names to Kierkegaard’s noetic divestment to Derrida’s aporetic genealogies, it argues that “belief” is the target, rather than the telos , of philosophic scrutiny. For the authors engaged here, beliefs are…
Cosmic Singularities: On the Nothing and the Sovereign
Until very recently, the creation myth of secular modernity has been the hot big bang hypothesis: the explosion of our single universe out of a single point. Physicists concede that in its traditional form, this story performs an uncanny recapitulation of Christian creation theology: the universe bursts forth suddenly, in a flood of light, out of nothing. As many contemporary thinkers have argued, however, the “nothing” of Christian orthodoxy is …
Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse
Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse
Introducing Polydoxy
Introduction to Polydox Reflections, co-edited with Kathryn Tanner
Veridical Claims and the Question (once more) of Philosophy of Religion
Bradley Onishi’s Sacrality of the Secular offers a helpful mapping of the recent history and contemporary terrain of the subfield awkwardly called “the continental philosophy of religion.” Onishi anchors his work in careful readings of two of the discipline’s forefathers: the over-appreciated Heidegger and the under-appreciated Bataille. In delineating the territory that these thinkers have opened, Onishi makes an operative distinction between “c…
The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno
The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno
Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking
Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and…
Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America
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